Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1993 No. 76 of 1993 - SECT 30

30. Section 4 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Object of Act

"4.(1) The object of this Act is to promote the development of a national
system of controls relating to the quality, safety, efficacy and timely
availability of therapeutic goods used in Australia or exported from
Australia, whether the goods are produced in Australia or elsewhere.

"(2) The provisions made by this Act are intended, as far as the Constitution
permits, to impose those controls forming part of the national system that are
appropriate to be imposed by legislation of the Commonwealth.

"(3) It is the intention of the Parliament that the other controls forming
part of the national system be imposed by the laws of the States, of the
Australian Capital Territory and of the Northern Territory.

"(4) This Act is therefore not intended to apply to the exclusion of a law of
a State, of the Australian Capital Territory or of the Northern Territory to
the extent that the law is capable of operating concurrently with this Act.".